University in Germany
Neubiberg, Bayern, Germany
University profile
The University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Universität der Bundeswehr München, UniBw M) is a campus university in Neubiberg on the southern edge of Munich. Founded in 1973, it trains the officer cadre of the Bundeswehr and combines a university division with a Hochschulbereich für Angewandte Wissenschaften (university of applied sciences division). Its degrees are state-recognised and equivalent to those awarded by the Länder universities, and the university is subject to the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts.
Teaching follows a trimester system. The Bachelor takes three years and a Master four years in total in the intensive study route, with seven trimesters for the Bachelor and five further trimesters for the Master. Much of the teaching happens in small groups, and the ratio of professors to students is about 1:18. Lectures are free in July, August and September, although compulsory placements often take place then.
There are seven university faculties: Bauingenieurwesen und Umweltwissenschaften; Elektrische Energiesysteme und Informationstechnik; Humanwissenschaften; Informatik; Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik; Staats- und Sozialwissenschaften; and Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften. The applied sciences division has three faculties: Betriebswirtschaft; Elektrotechnik und Technische Informatik; and Maschinenbau. The subject range is mainly technical and engineering-oriented, with a fully developed social science and economics area.
Research is bundled in interfaculty institutes and centres: CODE, CISS, INDOR, MARC, MORE, RISK, SENS, SMADH and SPACE, plus the affiliated institute ITIS. Central facilities include the university library, the computing centre (Rechenzentrum), the media centre, the language centre (Sprachenzentrum), the sports centre, the Zentralinstitut studium plus for general education and key skills, and casc, the institute for scientific continuing education, which runs MBA and Master programmes for working professionals.
Student life centres on the campus, with residential facilities on site, a canteen (Mensa), the restaurant Brandl and the UniCasino with a beer garden, a campus swimming pool, a climbing tower, sports grounds, a university church, a campus fire brigade, a hairdresser, and a day nursery and crèche for the children of students and staff.
The student body consists mainly of serving officers and officer candidates of the Bundeswehr, who apply through the Bundesamt für das Personalmanagement der Bundeswehr. Civilian students can enrol on a limited basis through cooperation partners such as the Autobahn GmbH des Bundes, the Eisenbahn-Bundesamt and the insurance industry. International students can take a full degree only as military personnel of friendly states under the Ausbildungshilfe of the federal government, while students of partner universities can spend up to 12 months at the university as exchange students. The university holds an Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for 2021-27.
Since 2021 the university runs the counselling service Stipendien@unibw, an initiative of the university leadership with professors and liaison lecturers of the Begabtenförderungswerke, supporting talented students towards one of the 13 federally funded gifted-student foundations (such as the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung). It is open to all students, military and civilian. An information event is held once a year in the spring trimester, and the most common route is a recommendation by a professor. The coordinator is Prof. Alexander Popp. Financial support from the foundations follows BAföG rules and is not available to serving soldiers, who can still use the non-financial support (counselling, seminars, networks). Civilian students are subject to the same rules as at other German universities, where personal income decides eligibility for financial support.
Autobahn GmbH des Bundes (since 2020) and the Eisenbahn-Bundesamt (since 2021) award scholarships for Bauingenieurwesen und Umweltwissenschaften; the Eisenbahn-Bundesamt scholarship includes a monthly study allowance. Applications go through these partners.
More information: Stipendien@unibw and Studium für Zivilpersonen.
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View scholarships for University of the Bundeswehr Munich →Study at UniBw M is part of the officer career of the Bundeswehr. Applications are not made to the university but to the Bundesamt für das Personalmanagement der Bundeswehr (Assessmentcenter für Führungskräfte der Bundeswehr, Kölner Straße 262, 51149 Köln, [email protected]). Applicants take a two-and-a-half-day aptitude test in Cologne with a computer-based test, a sports test, an interview and a group discussion with a short presentation, followed by a study counselling session. Successful applicants receive an offer for the officer career with integrated study.
Applications are possible all year round, ideally about one year before school leaving. The last date for a start in the summer of the same year is the end of March. A service commitment of at least 13 years applies, finalised after the degree is passed. Studies begin after 15 months of officer training, and the first lecture day is usually 1 October.
University programmes require the general or subject-specific Hochschulreife (Abitur), a qualification recognised as equivalent under Bavarian rules, or the criteria for qualified professionals under Art. 45 BayHSchG (a probationary study period applies to the group under Art. 45 para. 2). Some degree regulations require a basic internship (Grundpraktikum). Programmes in the applied sciences division require the general or subject-specific Fachhochschulreife, Abitur or an equivalent recognised qualification, and some regulations require a Vorpraktikum. Certain subject-specific entry qualifications obtained outside Bavaria are recognised only under conditions, and certificates are checked by the Bundesamt für das Personalmanagement.
Civilians can start a degree only within cooperation agreements, and selection and application run exclusively through the partner: Autobahn GmbH des Bundes and Eisenbahn-Bundesamt (scholarships for Bauingenieurwesen und Umweltwissenschaften), the insurance industry (Münchner Modell, an integrated degree in Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften with a vocational qualification as insurance and finance clerk), and the Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr (civil engineering degree Wehrtechnik, with students employed as civil servants on probation).
A full degree is currently possible for international students only as part of the federal Ausbildungshilfe for military personnel of friendly states, via the German military attaché at the German embassy in the home country. Students of partner universities can study for up to 12 months on the basis of bilateral agreements, and internships, Bachelor or Master theses at institutes are possible by application through the home university's international office with CV and cover letter. Incoming coordination: [email protected], +49 89 6004-4682.
Doctoral candidates need a completed first degree (Diplom, Master or equivalent) with an overall grade of at least 2.5 or 'good'; for the Dr. jur. the First or Second State Examination with at least 'satisfactory'. Above-average Master graduates of universities of applied sciences are also eligible. Doctorates are possible in the seven university faculties (BAU, EIT, HUM, INF, LRT, SOWI, WOW) leading to Dr.-Ing., Dr. rer. nat., Dr. phil., Dr. jur. or Dr. rer. pol. The applied sciences faculties have no doctoral rights of their own but offer cooperative doctorates with a university faculty, including with BayWISS. Doctorates with external partners from industry or research institutions are also possible, and the Promotionsordnung governs the procedure.
The university has a single campus at Neubiberg, Munich, at Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, with short distances between lecture halls, laboratories, residences and sports facilities.
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